Presented by the Teen Docent Program at the American Folk Art Museum. Educational programs are sponsored in part by the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, the Ferriday Fund Charitable Trust, the Leir Charitable Foundations, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Education programs at the Folk Art Annex are sponsored in part by the Deutsche Bank Americans Foundation.

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Monthly Archives: October 2013

This semester, the American Folk Art Museum’s Teen Docent Program welcomes a class of high school students from Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School and Talent Unlimited High School for a year-long program. They will be the first crew of Teen Docents who get to experience three different exhibitions at the museum.

The new group spent the first day of the program getting to know each other. They paired up and each answered the questions:

“If you could eat only one food for the next month, what would it be?”

“Is there a song you listen to on repeat? What is it?”

“What is your earliest memory that has something to do with art?”

Following their ice-breaker, students took part in “The Sort”–an activity designed to help students understand the breadth of the museum’s collection and of the field. They then ventured into the galleries for an in-depth discussion about an icon in the museum’s collection– St. Tammany Weathervane.